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ICE is still in Minnesota and Minneapolis. If you had any doubt, based on the lack of coverage in national news, just see these Reddit posts showing photographs of trucks delivering loads of new vehicles to the Whipple building. March 9th (#1, I'm not sure where post #2 went, #3, #4, #5, #6, also #6, #7), March 5th (#1 and this video saying there were 3 more), March 2nd (#1 and also #1, I think). ICE is definitely not gone. I don't know if these delivered vehicles were then driven out individually or on trucks, or if they still remain there.

We know that ICE is stealing license plates from cars of observers, making it more difficult for USA citizens to use their cars for anything. It's reasonable to suspect that ICE will use those plates on their own vehicles, as a disguise to hide their true identity. It's not unreasonable, since we know they are doing illegal plate swaps on vehicles, even using duplicated plates. We know that local law enforcement doesn't care when ICE commits crimes, even when it happens right in front of them.

We know that ICE steals children then tries to bureaucratically hide them. Fuck ICE for terrorizing young people. I don't use language like that lightly. I only ever do it when it's important. Like when children keep getting killed in this shithole country where 1/3 of the population worships greed and violence, defending it and voting for it. I still join my patrols, hoping to dissuade ICE from abducting more children, or at least to record the event, so people are not forgotten amongst the lies that ICE and this Republican administration tell.

You can see maps of known ICE abductions at this webpage, below. It's 238 days until the 2026 elections in the USA. Trump will use ICE violently and massively again before that date arrives.

https://iceout.org/

Sadly, Mni Owe Sni will disband this week, due to it being located on a documented Dakota burial site, so they'll remove the prayer camp. This article (MPR News) has good reporting on the tribal discussion about the presence of the camp.

During the last few days, I've managed to check various bills and paid them off. That's good. I checked the bank afterwards, and I'm still surprised at how much money I've stored away. It's minuscule compared to what anybody would recommend, but I'm doing so much better than most Americans in the USA. I seriously need to work on finding someone who can build new steps for me at the front and back doors to the house. The back is literally rotting out, so I have to watch my step when I take the trash to the dumpster.

As for work, it seems busier than expected at my job this spring semester, and I don't understand why. I had a 15-minute trash video I wanted to watch today on YouTube, and I got about 8 minutes into it throughout the whole day. No spare time for trivialities between tickets.

Again speaking of work, I'm not really a fan of the "New" experience in Microsoft applications like Outlook. I needed to clear Outlook cache for someone today, and it's not obvious how to do it in the new environment. I tried these 4 simple steps from Microsoft, and they actually worked to solve the problem the user was having! And it doesn't require local administrator privileges either, which is great.

A bit of good news: Physics Girl has posted a new YouTube video! It's an 8-minute video about solar physics and neutrinos. At the end, she talks very briefly about her Long Covid experience. It's good, though, that she's well enough to do a video again, even if it's filmed while she's still in bed.